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- One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.
- Michael Cibenko
- No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.
- David Eddings, King of the Murgos
- Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
- Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984), The Little Foxes
- Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.
- Elizabeth Harrison
- The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing -- where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do.
- Phillips Brooks (1835 - 1893)
- Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
- Goethe
- The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
- Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964)
- Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
- Eddie Rickenbacher
- Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Julius Caesar
- The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
- Thucydides (471 BC - 400 BC)
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